Two Tennessee Basketball legends landed spots in the Top 10 of ESPN’s Greatest WNBA Player of All Time list on Thursday. Tamika Catchings comes in at No. 7 in the rankings, while Candace Parker lands at No. 9.

Catchings played for the Indiana Fever from 2002 to 2016. She averaged 16.1 points, 7.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and 2.4 steals per game. Catchings has one WNBA Championship, one MVP award, one Finals MVP award, five Defensive Player of the Year nods, and seven selections on the All-WNBA First Team. She is also the only player in WNBA history to rank in career Top 10 marks in steals, points, rebounds, and assists.

“Never taking anything for granted, Catchings played hard all the time,” ESPN’s Charlie Creme writes. “Effort meant as much to her as her immense talent. Catchings was a consistently aggressive rebounder and was a complete player. She is still the only player in league history to finish in the top 10 in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks in the same season — and she did it twice (2002 and 2006). She was fifth all time in playoff scoring and played even better in the postseason. She averaged 16.8 points in 68 career postseason games, and 19.0 points and 8.5 rebounds in the Fever’s 2012 title run.”

Catchings played for the Lady Vols from 1997-2001 and is one of only two UT players to earn WBCA All-America accolades all four years of her career. She was also an SEC recipient on four different occasions and on the All-SEC First Team three different times.

The Duncanville, Texas native played a key role on the Lady Vols team that went 39-0 and won an NCAA title in 1998. Catchings also helped the Lady Vols place second in 2000. During her four-year career on Rocky Top, she led Tennessee to four SEC regular-season championships and three SEC tournament titles.

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Parker, meanwhile, is a three-time WNBA Champion, a two-time MVP, a one-time WNBA Finals MVP, a Rookie of the Year selection, and a Defensive Player of the Year selection. She played for the Los Angeles Sparks from 2008 to 2020, the Chicago Sky from 2021 to 2022, and the Las Vegas Aces in 2023.

During his career, Parker averaged 16.0 points, 8.5 rebounds, 4.0 assists, and 1.5 blocks per game.

“Parker was a role model for the modern version of the multiposition player and is often mentioned when younger players are asked about their idols,” ESPN’s Michael Voepel writes. “Her biggest value was as a creative post with great hands and footwork, but Parker also could run the offense and facilitate like a point guard because of her superb court vision. Though the bulk of her career was with the Sparks, she won her last two championships with Chicago (her hometown team) and Las Vegas.”

From her career with the Lady Vols, spanning from 2004-08, Parker averaged 19.4 points and 8.8 rebounds per game. She is the No. 3 all-time career scorer in the program (2,137) and the No. 8 all-time rebounder (972). She led Tennessee to national titles in 2007 and 2008, and her iconic No. 3 is retired. Parker was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame earlier this summer, becoming the 11th Lady Vol player to be inducted in the history of the program.

Candace Parker and Tamika Catchings both played for the legendary Pat Summitt, who won eight D1 National Championships with the Lady Vols’ program. Summitt also won 16 SEC Tournaments and 16 SEC regular season titles. Summitt passed away in 2016 at the age of 64, after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.